i 24 Sikine Group 



1 have often carefully examined it, the absence of the skull, and the great uncertainty 

 of the locality where it was procured, render it impossible to form a decided opinion." 

 Mr. Sclater has suggested that it really belongs to C. taevanus, in which case that 

 name w ould have to be superseded ; pseudaxis being the earliest of all. 



" The animal which has been figured under the name of Cervus pseudaxis," writes 

 Dr. Gray, " was obtained by MM. Eydoux and Souleyet in Java, but they did not 

 believe that it was a native of that country. It lived several years in the Jardin des 

 Plantes at Paris, and hence a series of its horns was procured and figured ; and while 

 there it bred with the common axis, and the mule produce was fertile. Some 

 naturalists have given the Sooloo [Sulu] Islands, near the Philippines, as the habitat 

 of this specimen, but I do not know on what authority." Mr. A. H. Everett 

 informs me that there are deer in the Sulu Islands, doubtless introduced. From his 

 description they appear to be sikas, and if so, they are not improbably C. taevanus. 

 Pere Heude has assigned a name to these Sulu deer. 



2. Other Names 



The following names have been applied by Pere Heude (Mem. hist. nat. emp. 

 Chinois) to specimens from China, Japan, and the Sulu Islands belonging to the present 

 group, viz. : — 



I . 



Sikelaphus soloensis, 



vol. ii. 



P" 



147 



2. 



Sika 



poouvrelianus, 





P" 



149 



3- 



11 



brachyrhinus, 





P" 





4- 





andreanus, 





P" 



152 



5- 



ti 



grilloanus. 





P- 



1 5+ 



6. 



•> > 



dugenneanus, 





P" 



,56 



7- 



■>■> 



joretianus, 



» 



P- 



1 57 



8. 



>> 



oxycephalus, 



!> 



P- 



158 



9- 



JJ 



frinianus, 



i 1 



P- 



■59 



10. 



If 



cycloceros, 



»J 



P- 



160 



1 1 . 



55 



surdescens, 



5> 



P- 



161 



1 2. 



55 



iacrymans, 



»> 



P- 



162 



'3- 



5 5 



arietinus, 



55 



P" 



162 



14. 



5 5 



yuanus, 



)) 



P- 



162 





>i 



sendaensis, 



vol. iii. 



P- 



98 



16. 



51 



blakistonius, 



ti 



P- 



98 



17- 



>> 



dolichorhinus, 



»j 



P- 



100 



18. 



H 



aplodonticus, 



55 



P- 



100 



19. 



>» 



schizodonticus 



11 



P- 



100 



20. 



>> 



orthopodicus, 



1) 



P- 



100 



